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Lena Dunham Finds Her Happy Place |
2019-08-21 |
Pretentious and uninteresting codswallop makes for perfect morning reading. Complete with pretentious and uninteresting photos... [Domino, via Drudge] - MY MOTHER IS OBSESSED with real estate. Not a casual perusing-homes-for-sale-in-the-Sunday-paper kind of obsessed. It’s more than even a "let’s sneak into this open house and pretend we’re interested in buying this Spanish Tudor" kind of obsession. This obsession borders on romantic. She’s never been content in a home for more than a few months before she starts fantasizing about the next one, searching and craving and driving everyone around her mad with her desire to level up. I’ve often tried to understand what she’s after. It’s not the classic American desire for more (more space, more windows, more clout), and it’s not about how she looks to other people or what her neighborhood says about her place in the pecking order. That’s far too basic a reading of the situation, considering she’s downsized, upsized, and resized in no particular order. She’s dragged our family with her, and the most major fights of my parents’ 44-year relationship have been on this topic (it’s a miracle that they survived the Williamsburg rental with the black lacquered kitchen and faux Warhol wallpaper). Her hunger takes no prisoners (unless you count the guests who had to sleep in the room off the kitchen of our unwinterized farmhouse). I sometimes have trouble differentiating between the exteriors of the homes we’ve lived in and homes we’ve driven by when she took the long way just to get a peek. |
Posted by:Raj |
#17 Chasing the crowd and poisoning the moles. |
Posted by: Rob Crawford 2019-08-21 23:36 |
#16 I was expecting bakery in the first three words... |
Posted by: bbrewer126 2019-08-21 21:41 |
#15 ....now that you mention it. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-08-21 20:41 |
#14 1st world tattoo artist quandary: "Do I size it for now, or 5-years-down-the-road-bloat?" |
Posted by: Frank G 2019-08-21 19:18 |
#13 No matter how your day at work went, just remember...somebody had to put down that ink. |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-08-21 19:15 |
#12 She's chasing the crows off the lawn |
Posted by: Frank G 2019-08-21 18:59 |
#11 That photo...NSFAnywhere. What a pig...no offense to pigs. |
Posted by: DooDahMan 2019-08-21 18:47 |
#10 That photo should be sent to every college applicant who's considering Oberlin. Don't do it, kids. That corrupt house is on the brink of collapse. |
Posted by: Lex 2019-08-21 16:49 |
#9 With the TITLE, I thought she had found a nice pasture to graze in?? |
Posted by: ranture 2019-08-21 16:35 |
#8 ^^^^ LMAO |
Posted by: chris 2019-08-21 16:33 |
#7 Well, the article did say she found her happy place. Probably had to roll in flour and look for the wet spot. |
Posted by: gorb 2019-08-21 16:16 |
#6 Chris, you're right. That should have an eye bleach warning. |
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2019-08-21 13:55 |
#5 did yall really have too put that pic up |
Posted by: chris 2019-08-21 13:52 |
#4 fwiw, she is an alumnus of Oberlin |
Posted by: lord garth 2019-08-21 11:42 |
#3 Damn... I hoped she had died. |
Posted by: DarthVader 2019-08-21 11:38 |
#2 Like with her sister's real estate? |
Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-08-21 10:56 |
#1 I was really hoping she kept her promise too move if Trump won |
Posted by: chris 2019-08-21 10:54 |